Bob Bishop, left center, chairman and chief executive officer of SGI, tells the one about the traveling parallel processor (well, not really) to Bill Feiereisen, far left, program manager for the High-Performance Computing and Communications Program NASA's Ames Research Center, and David Bottcher of Boeing Co.

Among those delivering presentations were:

Far left, Jim Taft, co-founder of the Terascale Applications group at NASA's Ames Research Center

Near left, Don Middleton, manager of the Visualization and Technologies Section of the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Scientific Computing Division